Zarathustra's Moral Tyranny: Spectres of Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach

ISBN-13: 9781399504317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

National Sun Yat-sen Univers Francesca (Associate Professor

Opis

Presents Nietzsche's Zarathustra as a moral tyrant whose ethics are more exacting than the Christian morals they are intended to supplant Identifies and critiques the four key strands of Nietzsche's ethics of self-overcoming Unmasks the 'moralism' behind Nietzsche's self-professed 'immoralism' Furthers research on the intellectual parallels between Nietzsche and Kant and between Nietzsche and Hegel The first critical work to discern affinities between Nietzsche and Feuerbach on the subject of love, sacrifice and a higher humanity By way of a sustained interrogation of Zarathustra's doctrine of self-overcoming, Francesca Cauchi lays bare the asceticism underlying the prescriptive injunctions set forth in the first two parts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These injunctions fall under three heads: self-legislation, self-denial and self-sacrifice, which are shown to bear striking affinities with concepts first formulated by Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach, respectively. In Cauchi's new reading, the Kantian rational will, the Hegelian 'labour of the negative' and Feuerbach's indivisible trinity of love, sacrifice and suffering are seen to resurface in Zarathustra as the agents of a ferocious and self-eviscerating doctrine of self-overcoming that exhibits all the attributes of a moral tyranny.

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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Translations; Introduction; The naturalist-normative problem; The morality problem; Max Stirner and the ‘tyranny of mind’; Kant, Hegel, and Feuerbach; 1. Nietzsche’s Ascetic Morality; Pitting a ‘morality of reason’ against the Christian morality of feeling ; Nietzsche’s self-eviscerating ‘morality of sacrifice’; Do ‘free-spirited moralists’ have the right to inflict their cruelty on others? ; Austerity and artifice; 2. The Kantian Rational Will and the Tyranny of Self-Overcoming; Autonomy and universality; Creator-destroyers and hammer-wielding legislators ; Shattering the Christian table of values; Erkenntniss and the hard labour of reorienting the affects; Reverence and martyrdom: willing the Übermensch; 3. Hegel’s ‘Labour of the Negative’ and the Lacerations of Self-Negation; Affirmative negation and Deleuzian derision; Spirit’s self-lacerating ‘labour of the negative’; Practical freedom and the planting of thought into the passions; Spirit’s vicious cycle of bitter deaths and interminable resurrections; 4. The Bitter Cup of Pure Love: Feuerbach and Zarathustra; Reclaiming the ’divine’ powers of human greatness; Love as a human absolute; Christ’s Passion and Zarathustra’s will to sacrificial love; An excursus on the I and thou of compassion; Conclusion; Zarathustra’s violent rhetoric of truth incorporation; Zarathustra’s moral tyranny; Bibliography; Index.